NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

LAM RUNG IN SCHOOLS. LONDON. December JJ

The prevalence ol betting among schoolboys of tender years was described in a debate by the Headmasters* < ..Mirren, e si Esmbri.lge yes) e.-.lsy. I lie l!cv. I*. T. R. Kirk (Industrial Christian Eellnu ship) said that in nne instance, out ol a class ol 12 hoys, whose average age was 11. 1 ,, 19 owned to backing horses, chiefly on the day of big races. Some of the boys combined to buy tips. line boy. on leaving school at the luncheon interval, collected bets from the whole street in which he lived and took them to a bookmaker.

At a North Loudon school the headmaster set the boys to write an essay on ■• YiTiat I do on Saturdays.” One boy’s essay began: "The first thing I do on Saturday is to make up my book.” The schoolmaster was amazed to ii tit I the boy was operating as a bookmaker among the oilier boys, often collecting as iinieli as 10s.

SPOONS IN STOMACH. LONDON. December 2>. Two dessert spoons, each about 9 inches long, swallowed tun years ago by Cecil P. Raines, aged JS, were re moved from his stomach refen.ly at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, I averpool. The spoons were swallowed while Raines was in prison, it is alleged, in an attempt Lo commit suicide. All X-ray examination showed t Inspoons were near his ribs. " I have never known similar articles to remain in a person’s stomach so long.” said the surgeon who performed the operation to a reporter. Raines had complained ol pain, and said that the spoons clinked together as lie turned over in ln-d and woke him np. MAORI CARY El) lIOESE. LONDON, December 22. Originally a gilt from the -Maoris ol New Zealand to Queen Victoria, a wonderful carved house, failed Mata-Atua, soft long. :)oft wide, and nearly 1 011 high, is to be shipped back to New Zealand. It will be shown in the International Exhibition at Dunedin and will not return to England. 11 is the finest specimen of native work known, each carving on the lions; representing an incident in native history. For years il lay in sections at Buckingham Palace, being too lug to creel. Ii was later transferred lo the South Kensington Museum, where it was also too large. Visitors to the British Empire Exhibition saw it as it was meant to be The Now Zealand Governni-'iit believe the Maoris will be glad to have it back, as examples of their work aie getting scarce.

CIO FOR -MARRIAGE.’ LONDON, December 2". Frederick Leslie Kilsliy, '2d a stoke-.-, of Arthur-stret. Holborn. was charged at Row-street yesterday with attempting to commit bigamy. Mr "Wallace, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said there was imw a further charge of committing an offence under the Perjury Act. On NmnMir 11. Tvilsby was married in his proper name to a Frenchwoman named Pi)on at the St. Pancras register oltit-', amt in December he gave notice of marriage at the St. Giles’s register office. Bloomsbury, in the name of F'-eh-icK T.eslie Kemp, describing himself as a bachelor, and giving false inlurmation as to his age and resit.me. This marriage was stopped by Detective Inspector Burmby, m ScoM-M.d Yard who arrested KiD'iy while lie »J----waiting in the office to go through Hie ceremonv with a foreign woman. After' his arrest h” made a Ha'.- - nent in which he adm-tfd that, op the invitation of a man who was known ns " the jockey.” he married a French-

woman of ill-repute for CIO, j>.nt' after- t wards, at the request of the same man. < agreed to go through the torn of nrr- < riago with another Frenchwoman for £l2. Kilsby, who said he had l/;en a long I time out of work and was tempted iy ihe money, was commut'd for link had being refused. I WOXPFRFUL UPFIiATIOX. I.OXJ)()X, Deeemher 22. At an inquest at Westminster yesterday on Frederick Marry Hensworllt. .“2. chartered accountant, of Ormanyroad, Xew Cross, S.K.. who died at (’haring Cross Hospital, l)r •lame.'' 1.5 arnuid house surgeon, said an operation was undertaken to save the man s sight. It lasted about forty minutes. and when the patient showed signs of failing artificial respiration was resorted to. hut there was no response. |)r Howard .hums, who gave the patient ether through a tuhe into the lungs, said it was really artificial respiration all the way through. The coroner, .Mr Oddie. in recording a verdict of death hv misadventure, said the situation of a tumour inside the man’s brain was diagnosed with great skill, and a very wonderful operation was performed, no less than In square inches of the bone ol the skull being removed. thus exposing the brain. The operation was a wise one and very skilfully performed. 1 LFXL’HIOF.'s SOCIALISTS. RICA. December IS. This morning the members ol the British Trade Fiiiiin delegation who 1 have been the guests of the Bolshevist ■ Government arrived in Riga in a lux- ’ urious Soviet railway saloon from I et- ‘ rograd. They stepped out ol the train ' whistling and humming Bolshevist ' melodies. 1 i Soviet ollieiais awaited them and ' motored them to the Legation for ; breakfast. An hour later the trade unionists returned to the station, aecom--1 panied by the Soviet ollieiais and en- ‘ tered a first-class sleeping-car for Berlin. The Bolsheviks cheered and wish- ; eil for a speedy proletariat upheaval 1 in Fngland. Mr I’iircell, ex-president ‘’ uf the Trades l'iiion Congress. and other delegates responded in broken 1 Russian. •• Long Live Sovietism.” The Latvian trade unions kept aloof. " j To |i;iciiv the growing discontent ol ” I workmen and peasants the Bolsheviks ‘ , used the trade unionists lor propag--1 | alula purposes. 1 Inndreils ol meetings ■' were held and the delegates, .Mr Bur s j cell especially, made .speeches admiring " j S:fviet a -iiievemeilts. 1 | The irc.de unionists travelled, were j ...Renamed, and departed in state in s I I’ii- .-in. They were always pro. id. d jv. it i. 1 11 iiriotis railway saloons, and I were accommodated at the best lintels. M i pel rograd, Zinoviev, tile head ol

’I in- Bolsheviks directed the delegation to arrange a speedy overthrow ol the British Covermi!. lit. JNSCI.IX BISKS. .LUX BOX. Dec. Il was stated at an inquest at Kmg-st.on-on- l balm’s on >nlurdny on l.curge Fdwnrd Stott, aged M, son of .!. .1. Stott, t lie steeplechase ici-key. that the bav was given insulin injections for diabetes by a district nurse after being brought home Ir.om hospital. Nurse \V aid Inst oi: said she bad been warned ahoiit the eitecls ol an overdos.* cf insulin. She objected to taking the (use exeept under the doctor's super- •• isicn. but lie boy’- father • id In- ■ •mild not get a do. Tor Til" (Or-nier. Dr Taylor raid lie-' nurse ought not to have taken the case a- insulin t real men i in cdeil to be given very carefully under a do-tor’s .supervision. Asked why he toe!, the boy mil of (lie hospital when lie was improving. Seott said lie was told by a doctor at i he hospital that (lie boy would be all right il lie bad the injections. The Coroner: ! cannot believe t!i“ doctor would be n foolish as to say anyl liiiig of Die kind. Insulin nvat--1111: -1 i a l c- ill! v v, a 1. In d . D. Dawes s-iid deal!, v.us due to .•oiua li.nii iliahetcs. and the coroner iveordeil a vredi. t of dealli I ri mi natural causes. AXTiDOTK TO .IA i.OXDO.X, Dei ember 2.’!. The dancing pupils at the Chelsea Polytechnic in Manresn-road were busy yesterday illuming perleetiug themselves in the steps ol the sword and Morj ris dances, the •• antidote to jazz.” of I which they are to give a public cxlnbi- | tion on Saturday next at o'clock. .Mr Douglas Kennedy, their instructor who ill private life is an ollical of the Department of Forestry, had some \rrv interesting laets to tell about the origin of the dances. •• As you have slat.-.l.'’ said lie. • ■ i be v come or have been preserved largely in the North Country, in Yorkshire, and Xotiinmberlanil. One ol the most characteristic and yet one ol the least-k nnwn sights in ail Fngland is

the annual miners’ gathering at Newcastle, where competitions in the old dances are held. For the occasion the miners wear a dress handed down for generations, as far as the type goes, which is probably the last vestige of a national costume in Kngland. They wear neat black knickerbockers of some shiny maleriai. yellow silk stockings, and buckled shoes Their loose white shirts arc covered with bunches ol ribbons dispersed ah over them. The Xortliumberinns danc-. either to Irish iig tunes or to country tunes on the ' small pipes.’

‘‘Tin? small pipes, or Knglish bagpipes, are now. however, growing niter. I doubt if there are more than three or lour accomplished players of them left alive. They are very dillicult to learn and to play.